A night elf rogue has openers that work for sub and assassination combat as well. It's most beneficial for subt. however.

I do notice that I can't just jam that button while running. I normally need to be planted for at least a moment before the meld/premed/cheap (or ambush, or garrote) works. You can also do sap like this.

I also recommend Dominoes or another button mod that will give you a stealth bar whilst melded, if you use the stealth bar.

This is not a rule people. Your opener will always depend on what is going on, what (class) and where your teammate is. What kind of class the opponent is and how they positioned themselves.

It's a good base to go by, but by no means should you exclusively do this.

Originally Posted by Viridis

Tier 3:
Cheat Death, in my opinion, is not a good talent. The utility it offers comes too late and too close to your death, and offers too little. When I see a Cheat Death proc in a battleground, I simply smile and kill him anyway. And that’s what’s going to happen to you too.

Here is where I no longer agree. Cheat Death does indeed suck quite bad when you have no healer. But it gives you a second chance when you came to be under a deadly amount of pressure. Taking it versus hard hitting burst comps is not a bad idea at all. Feint will not save you from 600k of burst damage, Cheat Death will.

Other than that.. I'd have a few comments here and there but theise catched my eye the most. Not a bad guide for starters.

Now, what do those numbers tell us?
Well, you'll meet more sub rogues above 2.2k than frost mages, however there are twice as many frost mages doing arena than sub rogues.
You'll meet more sub rogues above 2.2k than warlocks and monks combined, however the amount of players playing a monk or a warlock is 7 times higher than the amount of sub rogues playing.

I can agree that mages are currently overpowered, but not even close to how overpowered rogues currently are. As for monks and warlocks, on a scale from 0 - 10 of how strong a class is, where rogue is 5, monks and warlocks are below 0.

And honestly, the only real nerf I see is removing the ability to destroy people without even going into melee range. ST is just stupidly overpowered, you can't deny that.

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So, is LFR ToT gear (reduced down to 496) better than full Malevolent (476)? Is losing 30-35% PvP Power worth gaining an additional ~1500-2k Agility/Stamina and ~500-1k secondary stats?

you can get Tyrannical daggers super easily now which carry a ton of your PvP power. I kept Malev 4-set and replaced any non tyrannical offset items with PvE stuff. lost something like 6% PvP power, kept the extra energy for opener, but gained about 25% mastery, 20-30k stamina and a ton of attack power.

-in 5 man dungeons, Arms Warriors again are the weakest link in the chain as they require 3X amount of healing as other classes and therefore die much more frequently and receive less healing in general, as with the amount of mana spent to keep an Arms Warrior alive the healer can heal all other members and himself.

Also, Cloak and Daggers doesn't work during Shadow Dance, not just the range. I didn't mind the shuriken toss and less range to Cloak and Daggers nerf.
The part that sucks is you can't use cloak and daggers with shadow dance anymore.
I really loved teleporting behind them and cheap shotting multiple targets fast... =(

Also, Cloak and Daggers doesn't work during Shadow Dance, not just the range. I didn't mind the shuriken toss and less range to Cloak and Daggers nerf.
The part that sucks is you can't use cloak and daggers with shadow dance anymore.
I really loved teleporting behind them and cheap shotting multiple targets fast... =(

Hey there MMO-Champion community, more specifically the rogue community! Many of you may not know me, I don't post here often but I would like to change that, I recently made a video showing everyone how to open in PvP against certain classes and all of the class mechanics involved in a rogue opener and dealing damage.